Interestingly, FreeType was created to bring TrueType to OS/2. Here is a quote from an interview with David Turner: My first visit to Adobe in Mountain View was a little more than a month after the T… (View Post)
One way to test rasterizer behavior is to install the Selawik Variable font available from https://github.com/unicode-org/text-rendering-tests/tree/master/fonts. The README talks about several glyphs… (View Post)
Just a quick background on why the Font Vendor Identification exists in the OS/2 table of the font. During the implementation of TrueType into Windows 3.1, there were very few fonts available on the … (View Post)
Georg, any DWrite or GDI app (modulo some obscure rendering modes an app might choose) should support this style of hinting when running on Windows 10 Creators Update. (View Post)